Wish he was more like Torts. I was watching the Canucks broadcast, and it showed him reaming players out on the bench when they made a glaring mistake. Say what you will about the effectiveness of that style of coaching, but I will say Torts screaming in your ear provides a pretty damn good incentive to not make any more mistakes.
Too much passiveness, too much unaccountability from MacLean. Says best players play but then keeps Cowen in for every game but this last one, keeps Anderson as the #1 despite putting up the worst performances night in and night out compared to any goaltender in the NHL, etc... etc...
When you look at him on the bench, he doesn't look nearly as upset as he should be when we play like garbage, and it translates to the players not being as pissed off as well. As a head coach he needs to instil some discipline on this team, night in and night out he has to motivate this team to come out flying and take the play to the opposition. I haven't seen that yet from him this year. We're a budget team that has overachieved the past couple years because the team worked their butts off and surprised the opposition with their competitiveness. MacLean deserves huge amounts of credit for the way he handled the team the past couple years, but has frankly been disappointing this year.